Eric Romeo is an architect, lighting designer and film and video artist. Romeo’s work in design began at The University of Texas at Arlington, where he received a B.S. in Architecture in 2004 while studying film and video simultaneously. He continued his studies in 2014 at Parsons, the New School, where he studied environmental sound design, architecture, landscape design and urban design and received an M.Arch in Architecture in 2016.

Romeo has worked professionally as a design architect + project manager throughout his career in both a freelance and full-time capacity for over 12 years with diverse project experience from a number of private residences, religious, institutional, retail as well as site specific art installations and exhibition design. He worked as a lighting designer for 2 years as an attempt to bridge the gap between architecture and film.  Independently,  he has   worked   on    several   research/design   projects   that   involved   creating   a   master   plan   to   better   understand   various   urban   environments   and  developed   large   scale   urban/landscape   projects   within.  He has had the opportunity to work on a few solo projects, including the creation of a Mobile Aedicule Bedroom dubbed “the living installation”, served the role of exhibition designer for Parsons’ Alumni Show in 2015 and recently he had the opportunity to collaborate with The Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria for the 2023 Venice Biennale, where he re-envisioned a portion of Nile River Front in Cairo, Egypt

Romeo has made a feature length documentary film entitled, And the Worlds that Surround which is a rear window into the lesser seen worlds of NYC. he served the role of Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor and Sound Designer. He filmed over 4,000 individual clips for the film and was responsible for the creative trajectory for the project. The film premiered at Fotografiska in 2022 in NYC with a live score (violin + cello) during David LaChapelle’s ground breaking building wide exhibition at the Museum. It has since screened at The Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and is scheduled to screen at other institutions throughout 2023. The film won a Bronze Remi Award in the category of Best Documentary at Worldfest Houston International Film Festival 2022 and was an Official Selection in the Montreal Independent Film Festival 2022.

Romeo is currently in pre-production on his second feature length documentary called, Six Rooms in The South, which is an attempt to better understand the changing social and physical fabric in the Province of Calabria, the southernmost on the Italian Peninsula; using the medium of film to capture varying characters or “Rooms” of Southern Italy.  These “Rooms” or landscapes of the region are identified as Tradition, Abandonment, Desperation, Connection, Production and Fantasy and reveal themselves in the form of Festivals, Religion, Refugees, Immigration, Architecture, Landscape, Transportation, Terrain, Ruins, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Myth. These “Rooms” will be edited into six vignettes that will be threaded together to create a feature length film.

Romeo was a part-time professor at Parsons for 7 semesters, where he teaches in the first-year program. The course he teaches is Sustainable Systems, which challenges students to better understand that what they make comes from the earth and will ultimately go back into the earth, while giving them the tools they need to design more consciously. He taught the course 11 times.